We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
Let your life be your argument.
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.
There is no higher religion than human service.
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